When I arrived at St John’s College, Cambridge, in April 2023, it was a daunting prospect to be taking over the reins of a choir with such a distinguished recording heritage: there have been more than one hundred albums since the 1950s on some of the UK’s top labels. As a teenager, growing up in Northern Ireland in the 1990s, I could often be found in the small number of specialist classical CD sections in Belfast shops such as HMV.